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by Sophie DEVILLER and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Southeast Asia is in the grip of a fresh surge of paedophile activity with predators orchestrating and watching abuse on live-streaming sites and via webcams, and paying for it with near-untraceable cryptocurrency, victims and children’s charities warn. With widespread poverty, lax laws, and creaking judicial systems, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines have long been seen as soft spots by […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam has sentenced 10 people to death for smuggling meth, ketamine and ecstasy across the country by train, state media reported Friday as the communist country deepens its crackdown on drugs. The gang shifted 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of drugs from northern Vietnam to the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City between 2015 and 2016, according to state-run media on Friday. Five men and five women were given the […]
(Eagle News) – The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, in cooperation with the Embassy of Vietnam, has launched a campaign to further promote Vietnam as a tourist destination for Filipinos. Dubbed “Soulful Vietnam,” the campaign hopes to make Filipinos more aware of tourist spots in this Southeast Asian country which has seen increasing tourist arrivals in the past 10 years. “Last year, we had 150,000 Filipinos going to Vietnam. The Philippines is a very […]
by Nicolas Anil KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — A Vietnamese woman who had been accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother was freed from prison Friday, ending legal proceedings over the brazen killing after an often bizarre two-year saga. Kim Jong Nam, the estranged relative of Kim Jong Un and once seen as the heir apparent to the North’s leadership, died in agony after having his face smeared with a banned nerve agent as […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia has accused the Vietnamese coastguard of ramming one of its vessels to block the interception of a boat fishing illegally, as a senior minister announced a return to sinking foreign trawlers. The clash in the South China Sea at the weekend saw Jakarta summon Vietnam’s ambassador on Monday, after the navy detained a dozen Vietnamese fishermen. “The actions taken by the Vietnamese coast guard ship endangered the lives of […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Police in central Vietnam have seized more than half a ton of methamphetamine in one of the largest drug busts in recent years in the communist country where synthetic drug use is on the rise. Four people were arrested after police stormed a house in central Nghe An province where they found 600 kilograms (1,300 pounds) of meth, some of it stuffed in speaker boxes. The meth shipment was “about to […]
by M JEGATHESAN SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) — A Vietnamese woman suspected of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother accepted a lesser charge Monday and looks set to be freed soon, after her Indonesian co-accused was released last month. Doan Thi Huong smiled and said “I’m happy” after prosecutors presented her legal team with the new charge in a Malaysian court and they announced the details. She has been on trial since 2017 for the […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Indonesia (AFP) — A Vietnamese woman on trial for assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother is expected to learn next week whether her second bid for freedom has succeeded, her lawyer said Thursday. Doan Thi Huong is accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam with nerve agent VX at Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017, in a Cold War-style hit that shocked the world. Her co-accused — Siti Aisyah from Indonesia — was unexpectedly released […]
Customs accreditation of consignee, broker revoked (Eagle News)–Charges will be filed against those behind the P1.8 billion worth of shabu intercepted by Customs authorities. In a statement, Manila International Container Port District Collector Atty. Erastus Sandino B. Austria said he has also revoked the customs accreditation of the consignee, Wealth Lotus Empire Corporation, behind the shipment from Vietnam intercepted on Friday, March 22. He said the accreditation of customs broker Jane A. Castillo has also […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un arrived home on Tuesday, state media said, completing his marathon journey through China after his Hanoi summit with US President Donald Trump ended without a nuclear deal. Kim’s return to Pyongyang marked the end of an epic 4,000-kilometre (2,500-mile) journey — on board his olive green armoured train — from Vietnam, where his much-hyped second summit with Trump came to an abrupt halt last […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea President Moon Jae-in on Monday urged the US and North Korea to quickly resume denuclearization talks after their Hanoi summit last week ended without a deal. Moon, who has adopted a dovish approach to Pyongyang and brokered the US-North Korea talks process, urged his officials to find out what exactly had gone awry at the high-stakes meeting, and predicted a deal would ultimately be reached. “We hope […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paid tribute to Vietnam’s late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on Saturday before starting his long journey home through China, after his Hanoi summit with US President Donald Trump ended without a nuclear deal. Kim boarded his olive green armoured train at the Dong Dang border station in Vietnam before it rolled northward toward China en route to Pyongyang, kicking off a marathon 4,000-kilometre (2,500-mile) journey expected to take […]
